RFB said:
MtnViewRanch,
Sir,
If you have the time, how about a run-down on what you use each (rear blade, roll over box blade, landscape rake and a Road Boss road scraper) for, and what your experience has been with them?
My rear blade (96") which is the biggest one that Mid West made is a manual adjust blade. Off set, angle and tilt. It is actually a pretty good implement, but should be used on a tractor no bigger than 55hp in my opinion. I bent it the first time that I used it,
but have been able to continue to use it even though it is damaged.
I use the RB to cut in new roads,(works very good) and to maintain the edges of the existing roads. Works good to keep water ways clear and to crown the road if needed. Although my roads have what I consider minimal crown. The RB is also very good at smoothing surfaces with the blade turned around backwards and is good at controlling windrows when angled.
My Box blade is a Gannon rollover box blade, fairly heavy duty (about 1000lbs at 81" wide) It manually adjusts to 3 different positions and has 4 purposes. Cutting and moving dirt forwards, backwards, ripping the ground with the scarifiers and smoothing dirt, (using backwards position , but moving forward)I use this implement to dig and move dirt. Great for cutting high areas and filling in low ones. If you need to drag dirt from one area to the next and leave a nice surface in between, this will do it. It is good to work on a new road after being roughed in and to fill in wash outs, gullies in the roads.
My landscape rake is a modified beefed up Mid West rake, 96" wide. I use the landscape rake for manicuring my roads and grounds. Not really grading, but just raking. Sort of like the final clean-up, makes the ground look real nice and even, no wind rows.
My Road Boss road grader is my main road maintenance implement. 84" wide and about 1600lbs. It removes wash boarding, fills small ruts and can be used to re-shape the road surface if needed. This is my preferred all around road maintenance implement. If there is a lot of work that needs to be done with another implement, then I will use that particular implement, but for general all around road maintenance, the Road Boss is the implement for me.
I hope that this helps you in some way, any questions feel free to ask.